Art critic and writer of contemporary visual art

Publications List

Publications

Authored book

2003:Vampire in the Text: Selected Essays on Contemporary Art, London: inIVA.
Preface by Cuauhtémoc Medina. The volume assembles many of the essays published pre-2000, and is divided into two parts, Art in Practice, which focuses on specific artists’ work, and Art in Context, which explores some contemporary issues of art and critical practices.

Edited books with Introductions

2013:The Triumph of Icarus: Writings on the Work of Rasheed Araeen. Introduction by Jean Fisher. The book is a collection of essays written over several decades that contextualise the evolution and influence of Rasheen Araeen’s art practices. Contributors: Patricia Bickers, Guy Brett, Iftikhar Dadi, Jean Fisher, Osman Jamal, Amna Malik, Courtney J Martin, Ian McLean, Michael Newman, Paul Overy, Deas Philippi, John Roberts and Stephen Wright.

2012:
Jimmie Durham, Waiting to be Interrupted, M KHA, Antwerp. A selection of essays and poems published since ca.1996. Introduction by Jean Fisher: ‘Stranger at the Gate’.

2012:James Coleman, catalogue raisonné, Madrid: Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. The chronology section is edited by Jean Fisher, who wrote 35 of the 49 entries. It consists of readings of each of the artist’s works, including many early works for which there is no previously published account, and excerpts from essays by Manuela Ammer, George Baker, Mieke Bal, Lynne Cooke, Luke Gibbons, Frank Lubbers, Kaja Silverman, Michael Tarantino, Dorothea von Hantelmann.

‘So Different… and Yet’, James Coleman, Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art.

‘Remembering the Future: Tradition and Modernity in the Work of Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds’, in Most Serene Republics: Edgar Heap of Birds, (ed) Kathleen Ash-Milby and Truman Lowe, Washington and New York: National Museum of the American Indian.